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In reply to the discussion: Let's assume Holmes is found guilty of all charges. Death penalty or life? [View all]amandabeech
(9,893 posts)it doesn't mean that they were sane when they did the deed, although it is much harder to get judge and jury to understand the situation. I don't like that at all, which I think is similar to your position.
One way to get around this is for the defense attorney to submit a motion for psychiatric evaluation at a place that is not a prison hospital, because I think that psychiatrists and psychologists who work at those places are more like to find the person sane enough to stand trial when the majority of outside clinicians would see schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or other serious mental illness.
I think that some numbnuts doctor from the New York prison system attributed this to the guy's inability to get a date. That's pure Freudian. Freudian analysis has been abandoned by the vast majority of MDs, PHDs and PsyD's (PsyD is a degree in clinical psychology--and clinical psychology only). That's not the kind of doc who fully understands mental illness in the modern sense, as far as I'm concerned.
Treatment of the treatment of persons with a serious mental health problem varies by state. Texas clearly would find a way to fry the guy no questions asked. Massachusetts would probably put him in a mental facility for a good long while like DC did with Hinckley. I don't know where Colorado is between theses two end positions.
I love boats, but I do occasionally get seasick, so living on one full time wouldn't be possible for me, unfortunately.
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